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CIGAR WRAPPING AND ROLLING MAGHINE. No. 405,078. Patented June 11, 1889..

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CLAES WVM. BOMAN, OF NEWV YORK N. Y.

CIGAR WRAPVFVINAG Amt ROLLING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 405,073, dated June 11, 1889.

Application filed February 28, 1889- $erial No. 301,523. (No model.)

T 60% whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, OLAEs 'WM. BOMAN, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cigar Wrapping and Rolling Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to machines for applying the wrapper to the filler of a cigar; and its object is to improve and simplify the means for tucking the front end of the wrapper into or between the cigar-rolling appliances. These appliances are sometimes belts, but more generally power-driven yielding rolls. Machines of this last type are illustrated in several Letters Patent heretofore granted to me-e. g., No. 388,174, of August 21, 1888, and No. 396,263, of January 15, 1889.

Heretofore, so far as I am informed, a mechanical tucking-blade operated by hand has been used to tuck the front end of the wrapper into the rolls. The trouble with this device is that, besides being inconvenient to use, it is very liable to do imperfect work and to injure and cut the cigar-body or filler of the cigar as well as the wrapper. To remedy this trouble, I dispense entirely with a mechanical tucker or tucker-blade, and I use in lieu thereof an air-blast, which by a suitable nozzle is discharged directly upon the spot where the tucker-blade if used would operate.

By passing the end of the wrapper directly underneath the nozzle the blast will blow the end of the wrapper downward or inward upon the cigar bunch or filler and into a position where the roller will take it instantly. This nozzle can be movable, or it may be fixed in position and the air can be supplied thereto from an air-pump, blower, or other suitable blast-producing appliance. The blast can be regulated at will, if desired, by a cock on the supply pipe or nozzle, or in other suitable known ways.

In the drawings I have represented my improvement as applied to a machine of the kind illustrated in my Letters Patent No. 396,263. Figure l is a plan, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation, of so much of the machine needed for the purpose of explaining the improvement.

zation of the machine is unnecessary for the purposes of this specification. It is sufficient to say that the machine is the same as that which is fully illustrated and described in my aforesaid Letters Patent No. 396,263, and that the rolls D D are arranged and operate in the same way as do the like lettered rolls in said Letters Patent.

Myimprovement resides in the blast conduit or nozzle X, which is arranged over the rolls at 'the same point where the tuckingblade is located in my aforesaid Letters Patent, and is supported in position by the same stand Y, which formerly supported the tucking-blade.

The nozzle X,'by a pipe or trunk W, is connected to a blower, air-pump, or other airforcing appliance, which I have not deemed it necessary to show. Its discharge-mouth is over the point where the front end of the Wrapper is to be tucked down between the rolls, and is so shaped as to direct the blast upon that end and thus toforce it down upon the filler and into a position where it will at once be taken hold of by the rolls. The nozzle can be supported and arranged in various ways. It may be, if desired, upon a flexible pipe, which will permit it to be moved away from over the rolls after it has done its Work.

By this improvement I am enabled not only to do more perfect work, but also to perform it more expeditiously and surely than is practicable with a mechanical tucking-blade.

Having described my improvement, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s'- 1. The combination, with the cigar wrapwrapper enters, to discharge air at that point upon said portion of the Wl2L1)1)61,S11bSfiL11- I11 testimony whereof I have hereunto set 10 tially as and for the purposes hereinbefor'e set my hand this 25th day of February, 1889. set forth.

2. The combination of the cigar wrapping OLAES WM. BOMAN. or receiving rolls, the table over which the Wrapper passes to said rolls, and the blast- E Witnesses: nozzle for tucking the front end of the wrap- SAMUEL KRAUS, per between the rolls, substantially as and for ABRAHAM FRANK.

the purposes hereinbefore set forth. 

